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Engineers Week Feb. 18-24

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By pursuing a career in engineering, students can contribute to meaningful projects, solve complex problems, and make a positive difference in the world. Overall, engineering offers a combination of intellectual challenge, real-world impact, and opportunities for personal and professional growth. What is Engineers Week?

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A Teacher’s Guide to Science Fair

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A Teacher’s Guide to Science Fair Post by Michelle Bogden & Natasha Wilkerson August 1, 2023 Are you a teacher responsible for running Science Fair this year? Read on for our Science Fair Guide: Steps to Success! What is Science Fair? The process of science is messy!

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8 STEM Community Service Projects

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Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning is a core part of a student’s education. One effective way to get students excited about STEM and think critically about how these lessons connect to the world around them is through STEM community service projects.

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How Coding Teaches Virtuous Skills Like Patience

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Just like the painter, who chooses different colors to make her palette, so does the educator or the parent who intentionally chooses virtues for children to explore while they are creating their own coding projects. In an environment in which competition rules, patience will be easily forgotten in the palette of virtues.

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

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Economics is the study of how people make decisions, how we choose where to study and work, how we promote fairness in society and how our lives are shaped by market institutions and government policies,” says Dr Emil Temnyalov, an economist at the University of Technology Sydney. Is differential treatment fair?

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Engineers Week — A Must for High School

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Through DiscoverE, a group of students can spend the day in an engineer’s lab, meet his/her colleagues, see a project they’re working on, and ask questions. DiscoverE offers a wide selection of hands-on science-fair-type activities to inspire and motivate students. 12 Projects for your STEAM program.

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How ‘Climate Anxiety’ Affects Students — and What We Can Do About It

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Shivani Langer, a senior project architect and senior regenerative design adviser at the firm Perkins&Will Austin, echoes other experts who say children are more vulnerable to climate change than adults. We have even done competitions between different wings of schools to say, ‘Hey, how much electricity did you use?’